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Why isn't everyone talking about AI generated audiobooks? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn't say it was AI, I'd have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects... The last I'd heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry's voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it's clearly advanced incredibly fast. You'd expect more buzz for something that went from detectable as AI to indistinguishable from humans so quickly. How is it that no one is talking about AI generated audiobooks and their rapid improvement? This seems like a huge deal to me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a fairly big 40K lore channel on YouTube with a rather good AI impersonation of David Attenborough's voice and narration style/scripting. However, I just went to check it, yet it must have recently gotten hit with a DMCA and taken down. A shame really. Though I never got into 40K lore before, or the 40K franchise in general, I am a big fan of David Attenborough, and so that ended up really drawing me in to a new literary universe. However, it was a big mistake by the YouTube creator to use the name and photo likeness of Attenborough in the branding, video titles, and thumbnail art on the channel. I think without pushing that line, the AI voice with a clear disclosure could have kept the channel under the legal radar.

From the pinned comments made here, this looks to be the same creators new channel, now using a different voice, no longer based on any one real person:

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/@AttenboroughLore

https://piped.video/@Scholarslore

https://piped.video/watch?v=JnbGL8Z6KYg

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Related commentary on the take down:

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/1-PIhsD987I

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.